Re: Memory allocation problem with latest gawk

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:45PM +0400, Stanislav Ievlev wrote:
> Try like this(or create 100M file):
> gawk '/.*/ {;}' /dev/zero

I tried to reproduce it with bigger files, the proces was very slow
but no error occured.

Perhaps you have a buggy version of malloc() which doesn't handle
the tons of realloc's gracefully.

Sorry, I cannot help with this,
                Stepan